Strategies on LinkedIn to Boost Your Career

Using your LinkedIn profile wisely, can make it much easier for you to boost your professional career. LinkedIn is widely used by many different companies and people, which helps facilitate employers find new employee talents and for employees to seek out their dream job. Even if you don’t end up finding your dream job, or that perfect employee you’re seeking out, LinkedIn can still boost your public profile and make it much easier for those candidates to find you.

Here are a few ways that you can use LinkedIn to boost your career.

1. Build an Amazing Profile

From the get go, you should make sure that you have the best profile suited towards your professional goals. You should make sure that you fill out all of the areas on your profile, to gain maximum exposure.

• Make sure that your headline pertains to your professional skills.
• Update your skills as you need to, as well as your job experience, don’t forget to include details, and if you have any certificates of any kind.
• Have a photo that is professional and makes you standout.
• Write an amazing summary.
• Keep your contact information up to date.
• Put up a background photo to stand out.

Furthermore, you should browse other industry professionals, and groups, so that you can make more contacts within your preferred field.

2. Interact and Grow

Making sure that you have the best profile is only the first piece of the puzzle. Now that you’ve made a great profile, you need to get out there and interact with other professionals and grow your network. This only won’t help your profile get stronger become more visible, but you’ll gain important information on what is going on within your field.

Join groups in your field that interest you and start networking. Your network will only grow as long as you’re reaching out and making sure that people see your profile. Post comments, start discussions, and link other individuals in the group for more exposure.

3. Make use of Recommendations

Using recommendations can sometimes be more useful than a formal job reference. As an employee seeking out a company, the company you’ve applied to can review these recommendations and see them once they click on your profile; they no longer have to wait to ask you for a recommendation. As the employer, you are able to see a prospective employees recommendations and see if they’re suitable for the job outside of their job history.

These can provide great insight into how somebody works with people, and can showcase somebody’s more special skill if they have one. Moreover, recommendations can come from anybody such as, a former colleague, boss, teacher, or peers that you have worked with. They are great to have on your profile and improve your chance of getting hired.

4. Remove Buzzwords

Buzzwords will make your profile look bland. They’ll make your profile seem generic and they don’t add any spice to it. By taking out all those buzzwords in your profile, and replacing them, you’re making your profile stand out amongst the rest of the people in your field. These words not only sound boring and overused, they don’t add any great detail to your profile. If you switch them out, you can make a big difference in how you stand out from the rest of the crowd.

All you have to do is open a thesaurus and look for some better words to use. Here are a few examples of words you should change on your profile, right now.

• Strategic
• Passionate
• Enthusiastic
• Passionate
• Track Record